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Abelisauridae

Abelisauridae (meaning "Abel's lizards") is a family (or clade) of ceratosaurian theropod dinosaurs. Abelisaurids thrived during the Cretaceous period, mainly on the ancient southern supercontinent of Gondwana, and today their fossil remains are found on the modern continents of Africa, South America, and (western) Europe, as well as on the Indian…

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Abelisauridae

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related to Phylogeny · 14
Abelisauridae → Abelisauroidea, Abelisaurus, Arcovenator, Below, Ekrixinatosaurus, However, If, Ilokelesia, Jorge Calvo, Majungasaurinae, Rugops, Sereno, Sereno's, Tortosa
related to Classification · 12
Abelisauridae → Abelisauroidea, Abelisaurus, Carnotaurus, Ceratosauria, Fernando Novas, Greek, It, Linnaean, Noasauridae, Paleontologists Jose Bonaparte, Roberto Abel, The
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Abelisauridae → family in rank-based Linnaean taxonomy, subgroup Carnotaurinae
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Abelisauridae → The Theropod Database

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abelisaurids skull abelisaurid carnotaurus eoabelisaurus bones abelisaurus south known majungasaurus family aucasaurus also limbs cretaceous africa however description arcovenator basal

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Abelisauridaeis afamily in rank-based Linnaean taxonomy0.90text
Abelisauridaeis asubgroup Carnotaurinae0.90text
Noasaurusinstance ofand totally absent in carnotaurines.More primitive relatives0.80text
Ceratosaurus had longerinstance ofand totally absent in carnotaurines.More primitive relatives0.80text
mobile arms with fingersinstance ofand totally absent in carnotaurines.More primitive relatives0.80text
clawsinstance ofand totally absent in carnotaurines.More primitive relatives0.80text
Rugops or Ilokelesiainstance ofThe node-based definition would not include animals0.80text
which are thought to be more basal than Abelisaurusinstance ofThe node-based definition would not include animals0.80text
would be included by a stem-based definitioninstance ofThe node-based definition would not include animals0.80text
Abelisauridaerelated to ClassificationPaleontologists Jose Bonaparte0.60section
Abelisauridaerelated to ClassificationFernando Novas0.60section
Abelisauridaerelated to ClassificationAbelisaurus0.60section

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